Shannon Gibney

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of SEE NO COLOR (Nov. 2015, Carolrhoda Lab), a young adult novel that won the 2016 Minnesota Book Award in Young Peoples' Literature. Her writing appears in numerous anthologies, and in other venues including Al Jazeera America, The Crisis, and Gawker. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where she teaches critical and creative writing, journalism, and African Diasporic topics. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, she is currently at work on her second YA novel, DREAM COUNTRY (2018, Dutton), about more than five generations of an African descended family, crisscrossing the Atlantic both voluntarily and involuntarily.